Social Studies
History
Living and Working Together in Communities
The World in Spatial Terms
Purposes of Government
Market Economy
Identifying and Analyzing Public Issues
Living and Working Together in Communities
- Use historical thinking to understand the past.
The World in Spatial Terms
- Use geographic representations to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
- Understand how regions are created from common physical and human characteristics.
- Understand how human activities help shape the Earth’s surface.
- Understand the effects of human-environment interactions.
Purposes of Government
- Explain why people create governments
- Understand values and principles of American constitutional democracy.
- Describe the structure of government in the United States and how it functions to serve citizens.
- Explain important rights and how, when, and where American citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by participating in government.
Market Economy
- Use fundamental principles and concepts of economics to understand economic activity in a market economy.
Identifying and Analyzing Public Issues
- Clearly state a problem as a public policy issue, analyze various perspectives, and generate and evaluate possible alternative resolutions.
- Communicate a reasoned position on a public issue.
- Act constructively to further the public good